Post date: Oct 30, 2008 8:04:23 PM
Operating systems face a number of software safety challenges, fundamentally centered around CPU-, memory-, and I/O-protection. While hardware provides the foundations for higher-level protection mechanisms, there are numerous oustanding problems at the software-level. We briefly discuss some of the key challenges, focusing on one or two case studies. Time-permitting, we will mention some of the work we are pursuing in the field of dependable and predictable computing.
Date: October 1, 2008
Speaker: Rich West
Slides: not available